Help on quartz/rock

[Prospectinglife]

 

[AtomRat]

Are they chips broken off the bottom or is it bubble texture? Kind of like an agate

 

[Prospectinglife]

Its a bubble texture and they look to have formed together. I was thinking agate but havent seen anything joined in way these have. I wonder what would have been on the inside

 

[Lefty]

Hard to be certain by photos but it looks very similar to a piece of chalcedony I have. The back of mine is deeply pitted bubble agate while what looks like "icing on the cake" on the front side is a bunch of quartz crystals, stream-worn right down.

 

[AtomRat]

Its very similar to the chalcedonic texture imprint aye. Could have been a heap of egg nodules on that other side

 

[Lefty]

I keep thinking about cabbing mine because the "cake frosting" side sparkles like druzy quartz even though the crystals are worn to stumps. Might look effective domed and polished but I guess there's only one way to find out.

 

[Prospectinglife]

Wow thats pretty cool cheers guys

 

[Prospectinglife]

can anyone help with this aswell please?

 

[AtomRat]

Hmm I'm not even gonna say what I think it is because its too much of an out there thought to be ruby... lol :8
Mabey glass.. need more oppinions on that one and a specific gravity test may be needed

 

[Prospectinglife]

Ok, my dad found it on his property. We have only just started to do this sort of thing he is finding a lot of different coloured rocks and match-head size zircons. The property lines the base of a mountain range and has found little relics in caves and such as well.

 

[Prospectinglife]

 

[AtomRat]

Would you have a set of accurate scales nearby? Doing the specific gravity test will certainly help I'd unknown minerals. Ill grab the url for info on it. Looks kinda like a tourmaline / rubellite but I think its got the wrong cleavage.

 

[Prospectinglife]

This is also trying our best with one shovel and alot of hours picking thru dirt and rocks lol

 

[Prospectinglife]

Ok cool ill msg my dad and ask if he does im not sure if he cant get back to me tonight. Thanks

 

[AtomRat]

Do you have a sieve / classifier? A simple but of mesh on a wooden frame or even an old ironing board will help somewhat.

Here's the link to s.g testing info and streak test:
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=17698

 

[Prospectinglife]

I have a friend's old seive i have to patch up ill have to have to do it on the weekend when i get a chance to get down there

 

[Lefty]

Looks a bit like a garnet actually. I have seen them in that purplish shade. Can't really tell from a photo of course.

 

[Heatho]

Looks a bit like rhodolite/pyrope garnet to me, a general area would go a long way to identifying it also. It doesn't look like tourmaline to me. It could possibly be a ruby.

The stone seems to exhibit a bit of pleochroism in those 2 photos which actually makes me wonder if it is actually a garnet or something else entirely such as ruby or spinel though it does look kind of the wrong colour to me to be either of those.

Hopefully Barney (Kingsolomon) will take a look at it for you.

 

[Prospectinglife]

No worries, its from west nowra/ berry nsw. Not many areas to fossick unless you have a property or permission. Ive researched abit about this area but not much has come up at all apart from agates and different rocks. The local ranger told me people have found gems there but he was not into fossicking/prospecting so couldn't tell me what types.

 

[vstrom]

Happy days to come I think.